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Mar 18, 2008

1 year anniversary

Hip, hip, hooray....my blog is 1 year old!! A year sure goes fast, doesn't it? I learned so much trough blogging, such as writing better English (lol) but best of all...I met you and so many other wonderful people! Thank you'll for coming by and letting me share a little bit of my creative thoughts with you. It's so inspiring to visit your blogs too! I really want to celebrate my blog's first anniversary with you so I made a little gift basket ( with suprise) to giveaway and I also made a tutorial on how to make one. If you want to enter the draw all you have to do is leave a comment before wednesday march 26. So feel free to join in also if you don't have a blog you are still very welcome!

Tutoriol "How to make a gift basket"

Step 1.)

Draw a basket like the one in the picture. You can make a larger or smaller basket by changing measurements.Cut the pattern out.

Step 2.)

Pinn the pattern on the fabric add seam allowances and cut the pattern out.Place the pattern for the outside basket on the fold.

you'll have three parts.

Step 3.)

place both lining fabric pieces on outside fabric piece with the right sides together and sew the top left and right, see picture.

This is how it should look.

Step 4.)

Fold the fabric with the right sides together and sew all around leaving an opening on the side of the lining fabric, see photo.

Step 5.)

Turn the basket inside out and sew the opening closed.

Push the lining into the outside fabric piece.

Step 6.)

Add cord, string or ribbons and sew them on the basket as you pleased. Buttons, beads, you can use anything to make it a fancy basket.

For those who want to give this pattern a try, I hope you enjoy and please let me know how it turned out, I really like to know!

91 comments:

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Hello!Congratulations! My english isn't very good, but doesn't stop me to tell you how I enjoy reading your blog. Since I first visit you, I never stoped... Lovely ideas and great works! Keep on...KissesSandra

Congratulations, Corry, on one year of blogging! I'm very happy that I got to 'meet' you through your blog and hope you have many more posts in the future. The gift bag is so cute. Thank you for the tutorial on making one.

congrats on your 1 year anny of your blogI enjoy reading it .The bag/basket is adorable, thank you for the tutorial. I would like to make it and hang it on the door in my kitchen to hold treats :)Kathie

Corry! What a beautiful blog you have. Every post is as good as the last. Your stitching skills are great. Congrats on the 1 year. You have really taken advantage of the blog world. I love it. Love Stacy

Corry, that little bag is adorable! Thank you for the tutorial, I am going to try making one. Happy anniversary too! I have only been reading blogs for about a month, but yours was one of the first ones I added to m =y favorites. I always look forward to new posts. And oh.. I would love to win your little bag give-away!

Congrats on the anniversary! I saw the pictures of your quilts and they are beautiful. Really nice work. And I also love tutorials! Thanks for the ones you made. I have a friend that married a Dutch and live near Rotterdam now. I'm trying to make her interested in arts and crafts. I'll pass along your blog. Cheers!p.s. no coments on English (yours are really good) because it's a second language for me too. :D

Congratulations for reaching your first blogiversary. Your little bag is so sweet and you are so generous to provide the tutorial. I love to visit your blog - so many lovely things to see and I always feel inspired. Hope you keep blogging for a long, long time.

Corry, happy first blog anniversary, I enjoy reading your blog and love your sewing, many thanks for the bag tutorial, I will enjoy making some of these for my little granddaughters. I haven't commented on your blog before just lurked. Contratulations on your english, I wish more of us english-speaking people had learn't a second language (especially me)Cheers

Congratulations on your milestone in posting. I was so excited reading your tutorial the other day that I didn't even realise that it was to be part of a giveaway. Anyway, to cut a long story short, the main idea of your tutorial will always stay with me as I was overwhelmed by the simplicity of making the turnover. Thank you very, very much. Cherrie

Hartelijk (sp???) gefeliciteerd!!! Congratulations on your one year anniversary!And thanks too for the tutorial. I have Dutch ancestors, and was fortunate enough to live in the Netherlands for a semester in college - so hope that is how you spell the first word! I stole the second word from other comments...oops. I will continue to enjoy lurking - and oh, would you enter me in the drawing too please? Thanks - Diane from Michigan (nee Vruwink).

That's a great basket. Thanks for taking the time to share the pattern and pictures. I'm making some reusable shopping bags and I'll have to use some of these techniques in my construction...maybe...smile.

Happy blogversary!I love to come here and see the beautiful work you make. It´s colorful, criative and inspiring blog. Thanks for sharing with us and I hope it goes for many more years :)!hugs from BrazilGlaucia